Tag Archive | winter

Polar Vortex

Tanka Poets On Site

once in a blue moon
polar vortex visits
freezing time ~ polaroids
of chaotic icy wind
blowing us into hiding

blizzard lays siege
light shatters like ice
the darkness within
frozen in my heart
awaiting the thaw

stars and string of lights
outline the old stone bridge
view from wintry bench

snowed in by a fire
new england trees iced over
glistening icicles
growing old together
a winter dream

ianthine twilight
mutes newly snow covered earth
soft is the violet

old woman on ice
skates ever so slowly
down the walk

do hummingbirds hide
in a secret red garden
of honeysuckle blooms
when icy turn the feeders
of caretakers in the warm?

leafless tree
stark white limbs await
winter’s first snow